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Non-Euclidean plates are a subset of the class of elastic bodies having no stress-free configuration. Such bodies exhibit residual stress when relaxed from all external constraints, and may assume complicated equilibrium shapes even in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Efi Efrati , Eran Sharon , Raz Kupferman

We study geometric properties of linear strata of uni-singular curves. The singularities of closures of the strata are resolved and the resolutions are represent as projective bundles. This enables to study their geometry. In particular we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Kerner

Using classical differential geometry, the problem of elastic curves and surfaces in the presence of long-range interactions $\Phi$, is posed. Starting from a variational principle, the balance of elastic forces and the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. A. Santiago , G. Chacon-Acosta , O. Gonzalez-Gaxiola

The behavior of an elastic curve bound to a surface will reflect the geometry of its environment. This may occur in an obvious way: the curve may deform freely along directions tangent to the surface, but not along the surface normal.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-18 Jemal Guven , Dulce María Valencia , Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

In this paper we consider the elastic energy for open curves in Euclidean space subject to clamped boundary conditions and obtain the \L ojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality for this energy functional. Thanks to this inequality we can prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Anna Dall'Acqua , Paola Pozzi , Adrian Spener

We consider an obstacle problem for elastic curves with fixed ends. We attempt to extend the graph approach provided in [8]. More precisely, we investigate nonexistence of graph solutions for special obstacles and extend the class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Marius Müller

We consider closed curves in the hyperbolic space moving by the $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy and prove well-posedness and long time existence. Under the additional penalisation of the length we show subconvergence to critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Anna Dall'Acqua , Adrian Spener

The free elastic flow is the $L^2$-gradient flow for Euler's elastic energy, or equivalently the Willmore flow with translation invariant initial data. In contrast to elastic flows under length penalisation or preservation, it is more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Tatsuya Miura , Glen Wheeler

Conditions, related to the so-called bending problem are considered for hypersurfaces of a pseudo-Euclidean space. Corresponding theorems are proved.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Ognian Kassabov

These informal notes are an expanded version of lectures on the moduli space of elliptic curves given at Zhejiang University in July, 2008. Their goal is to introduce and motivate basic concepts and constructions (such as orbifolds and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Richard Hain

The elasticity difference tensor, used in [1] to describe elasticity properties of a continuous medium filling a space-time, is here analysed from the point of view of the space-time connection. Principal directions associated with this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. G. L. R. Vaz , Irene Brito

In this paper, we focus on some characterizations for curves in the Galilean and Pseudo-Galilean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Alper Osman Öğrenmiş , Münevver Yildirim Yilmaz , Mihriban Külahci

We study stationary points of the bending energy of curves $\gamma\colon[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}^n$ subject to constraints on the arc-length and the curve's holonomy while simultaneously allowing for a variable bending stiffness along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Oliver Gross , Ulrich Pinkall , Moritz Wahl

Following a suggestion of Jordan Ellenberg, we study measures of complexity for self-correspondences of some classes of varieties. We also answer a question of Rhyd concerning curves sitting in the square of a very general hyperelliptic…

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A finite element approach to the elastic flow of a curve coupled with a diffusion equation on the curve is analysed. Considering the graph case, the problem is weakly formulated and approximated with continuous linear finite elements, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Paola Pozzi , Björn Stinner

We consider a parabolic obstacle problem for Euler's elastic energy of graphs with fixed ends. We show global existence, well-posedness and subconvergence provided that the obstacle and the initial datum are suitably 'small'. For symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Marius Müller

In this editorial survey we introduce the special issue of the journal Communications in Mathematics on the topic in the title of the article. Our main goal is to briefly outline some of the main aspects of this important area at the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Lenny Fukshansky , Camilla Hollanti

This review introduces the elasticity theory of two-dimensional crystals and nematic liquid crystals on curved surfaces, the energetics of topological defects (disclinations, dislocations and pleats) in these ordered phases, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-21 Vinzenz Koning , Vincenzo Vitelli

This paper is devoted to studying impedance eigenvalues (that is, eigenvalues of a particular Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) for the time harmonic linear elastic wave problem, and their potential use as target-signatures for fluid-solid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Michael Levitin , Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas